Our mission is to transform the way people think about home movies by providing the means to discover, celebrate, and preserve them as cultural heritage.
Topic: home movies
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
Scenes from the daily life of a Texas farm family.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: Amateur films, Agriculture: Farms and farming, Rural America
20,036
20K
movies
eye 20,036
favorite 48
comment 3
Unidentified Super 8 surgery film. Donated to the Center for Home Movies collection by the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: home movie, surgery
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
4,953
5.0K
movies
eye 4,953
favorite 8
comment 0
Summer 1982 / Summer 1983
Topic: Summer 1982 / Summer 1983
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
To come.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
This is a wonderfully eclectic portfolio of film footage donated by Jack Burns. Jack hopes that sharing his collection of personal, family and unique films will inspire others to do the same. Jack hopes that people will enjoy watching these as much as he enjoyed taking the films.
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topic: Home movies
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Home movies shot on Super 8 and Regular 8mm film. Footage by David Lavelle, Sr. from 1955 to about 1979. Footage by Phyllis Lavelle from 1979-1984. Footage by Tim Lavelle from 1970-1980's. Chronicles a blue-collar Catholic family of six children growing up in San Francisco during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Their children begin to emerge in the 1970's. Also includes sub-collection of Deehan Family Home Movies, filmed on Regular 8mm film from 1950-1955 by Ken Deehan, largely in San Francisco and...
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 8 reviews )
Topics: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906, San Francisco: Disasters, Amateur Film
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
30,779
31K
Aug 22, 2011
08/11
by
Gregg Arthur
movies
eye 30,779
favorite 83
comment 3
Shot by Gregg Arthur, of Marine Corps unit D Co/1st Battalion 26th Marine Regiment 5th Marine Division, on a Super 8mm Canon camera in 1966-67. Footage shows return from battle in Operation Deckhouse in Republic of Vietnam to Philippines, Subic Bay for re-supply, flight over Chu Lai area, and field hospital at Tien Shau. Copyright: All rights reserved. Licensing requests should go to Chad Hunter at homemovie@gmail.com
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40, Amateur films
Kodachrome footage of the San Francisco World's Fair, held on Treasure Island.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topic: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939
Digitized by the Internet Archive
Digitized by the Internet Archive.
Topics: don knuth, home movies
10,705
11K
movies
eye 10,705
favorite 20
comment 2
Behind the scenes footage of a Spaghetti Western in production in Spain, 1975. Gorgeous footage that takes us right inside the extravagant, but totally lo-fi, sets and action. Diane Dobronte shares the story behind the film that goes behind the film: It was 1975 and my boyfriend, Tony Anthony , had written, produced and was starring in an American-Italian co-production film called Get Mean – in the spaghetti western genre. Tony had already done several of these: The Stranger in Town...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
2,026
2.0K
movies
eye 2,026
favorite 28
comment 0
Korin in summer of 1980
Topic: Korin in summer of 1980
Henry John Dewenter was born in Peckelsheim, Germany in 1884. Elizabeth Auer was born in Austria in 1889. Both immigrated to the US in 1907. They were married in 1914 in Los Angeles. They purchased land in Southern California, and oil was discovered on the property. They built up an orange ranch north of La Verne, California, now on the National Register of Historic Places (listed as the DeWenter Ranch/DeWenter Mansion). The elder Henry Dewenter passed away in LA in 1954 and Elizabeth passed...
Topic: Home movies
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
5,365
5.4K
movies
eye 5,365
favorite 35
comment 0
Amateur home movies in Iowa. From LostinLight.org
Topics: home movie, kids, iowa
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies, African American
From the Lavelle Family Home Movie Collection, digitized by Nicole Lavelle. Shot by David J. Lavelle, Sr. on Super 8mm. Reel label: Halloween 10-31-1969 Peg Friends Easter 1969 - Also Swimming - Serra St. Francis - S.I. Swim meet at Serra, Mick 3rd 1:12.2, April 3, 1969 — April 6 Easter #1 Easter #2 APril 6, 1969 May 30 Trip Daves Kids - Trip w/Dave; 1969- Mick Swim, Dan Basketball - Mick - AAU Swim Meet, Balboa Pool, 2/8/69 1st - Dan Sport-o-Rama St Monica GC Bs, OLM, CCSF, 2/23/69 (Note...
Topics: Lavelle, home movies, San Francisco
7,401
7.4K
movies
eye 7,401
favorite 36
comment 1
Unidentified orphan 8mm home movie reel, circa 1950. Donated to the Center for Home Movies collection by the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: Home movies
Amateur film.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
Bohemian Club members relax and line up for a meal at the Bohemian Grove encampment.
favoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: San Francisco: Bohemian Club, Recreation, Gender roles
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse. This footage is on 0692_HM_Ivan_Besse_collection_Britton_South_Dakota_1938-39_Reel_1_12_01_09_00
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 15 reviews )
Topics: Amateur films, Home movies, South Dakota: Everyday life
5,006
5.0K
movies
eye 5,006
favorite 26
comment 2
The 1936 New Year's Party
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topic: Home movies
Emmaus Boys Camp, Wesco, Mo., 1934
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger, camp, Emmaus Boys Camp, 1930s, Missouri
2,768
2.8K
Aug 5, 2011
08/11
by
Arthur H. Smith
movies
eye 2,768
favorite 20
comment 0
Arthur Smith was born in Silver Spring, Nevada in 1909 and passed away in 2000 after having lived in the Bay Area and Big Bear Lake, California. According to his typewritten autobiography, after high school he began working for the Pacific Telephone Company as a telephone repairman. He was asked by the company to make a sponsored film for them, and he was later promoted to first level management at Pacific Telephone. Smith produced a variety of instructional and safety films for the Bell...
Topics: Amateur films, Arthur H. Smith
3,608
3.6K
May 25, 2013
05/13
by
Rodney K. Ketcham
movies
eye 3,608
favorite 30
comment 0
1961 Ketcham family trip to England, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Austria. Rodney K. Ketcham Collection: This large collection of 8mm and 16mm amateur films by Rodney Kenneth Ketcham is familial, yet international, in scope, showing both travel throughout the United States and abroad and domestic home movie scenes. Content notes are from Dr. Ketcham’s daughter Jerri Ketcham McDermott. Dr. Rodney Kenneth Ketcham (1909-2002), grew up in Lestershire, New York. Dr. Ketcham was...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Jack Burns Family Film
Topic: reel 42
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
6,127
6.1K
movies
eye 6,127
favorite 44
comment 1
Super 8 film of an earth-oriented prayer ritual
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: super 8, film, home movie, ritual, prayer, earth ritual, earth, color
This is NOT Lavelle Family Home Movie Footage. Mystery reel owned by Rick Prelinger and digitized by Nicole Lavelle in March 2017.
Topic: home movie
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
4,557
4.6K
May 11, 2012
05/12
by
Arthur H. Smith
movies
eye 4,557
favorite 11
comment 0
Arthur Smith was born in Silver Spring, Nevada in 1909 and passed away in 2000 after having lived in the Bay Area and Big Bear Lake, California. According to his typewritten autobiography, after high school he began working for the Pacific Telephone Company as a telephone repairman. He was asked by the company to make a Arthur Smith was born in Silver Spring, Nevada in 1909 and passed away in 2000 after having lived in the Bay Area and Big Bear Lake, California. According to his typewritten...
Topics: Amateur films, Arthur H. Smith, Dramas
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
To come.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: home movies, prelinger
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. (partially on 4156_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_6)
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 7 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffman (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffman dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
To come.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
Henry John Dewenter was born in Peckelsheim, Germany in 1884. Elizabeth Auer was born in Austria in 1889. Both immigrated to the US in 1907. They were married in 1914 in Los Angeles. They purchased land in Southern California, and oil was discovered on the property. They built up an orange ranch north of La Verne, California, now on the National Register of Historic Places (listed as the DeWenter Ranch/DeWenter Mansion). The elder Henry Dewenter passed away in LA in 1954 and Elizabeth passed...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Home movies possibly shot by a Minneapolis family.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: prelinger, home movies
2,141
2.1K
movies
eye 2,141
favorite 30
comment 1
Kids Swimming
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: Kids Swimming
15,143
15K
Jan 23, 2006
01/06
by
D.A. Wright & Darrell Lee Wright
movies
eye 15,143
favorite 25
comment 2
Untalented, Unprofessional, Unruly.The Worst Movie Ever Made.This Movie Is So Terrible That It Is Not Even Funny... It Is Hilarious!!!! This is the film no one is talking about. In fact many people wish it would just go away. Unfortunately for them it is now available for download right here. Anderson, Indiana is going through a dry spell--and we don't mean weather wise. After a local pot dealer is busted, a group of his friends are contacted to retrieve his hidden marijuana stash before the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Feature Film, Trailer Park Boys, Comedy, Drugs, Marijuana, Illegal Copy presentations, Knight's...
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
377,137
377K
Aug 31, 2007
08/07
by
Robbins Barstow
movies
eye 377,137
favorite 35
comment 11
Sixteen year old Robbins Barstow, an Amateur Cinema League member and a fan of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies, rounded up his siblings and friends and led them into the wilds of Granby, Connecticut for this epic tale of a journey into Edgar Rice Burroughs' Africa. Also available with commentary by the filmmaker on the DVD "Living Room Cinema: Films From Home Movie Day, Vol. I".
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 11 reviews )
Topics: home movie, Barstow Travel Adventure.
From the Lavelle Family Home Movie Collection, shot by David J. Lavelle, Sr. and digitized by Nicole Lavelle. Reel label: (4) Vacation '72 Beach - Lagunitas, Peg's 12th Birthday Peg's 7th grade baseball Mick + Patsy Beach Seal Rocks
Topics: Lavelle, family, home movie, San Francisco, California, Seal Rocks, Ocean Beach, Patsy Lavelle,...
Mardi Gras: Parade of Nor.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 10 reviews )
Topics: New Orleans, Mardi Gras, Celebrations
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery mill for 25 cents/week. Eventually, he started his own silk stocking factory in Philadelphia – Lucille Hosiery. He retired at age 50 and pursued his hobbies – tennis, gardening and filmmaking. He visited all 50 states and Mexico and Canada filming with a camera mounted to the dashboard of his car. Many groups, including the horticultural...
Topic: Home movies
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11
